To kick of Christian Aid Week, the Christian charity displayed 150 baby grows at St Martin in the Fields Church in London to highlight and raise awareness of the West African nation’s shocking maternal death rate.
Katy McCabe from the Christian Aid said she stands in support with mothers in Sierra Leone because “everyone deserves to give birth safely”.
The baby grows have been donated by mums from all walks of life including MPs Luciana Berger, Jo Swinson, Seema Kennedy and Alison Thewliss, BBC broadcasters Emma Barnett and Kate Bottley, ITN newsreader Romilly Weeks and actress Jemma Powell.
Alongside its local partners, Christian Aid has also found a simple way to introduce a money saving system that women in poor communities in Sierra Leone can use for emergencies such as medication.
The charity takes two ordinary padlocked steel boxes into communities and the women select chairwomen to guard the keys that can be used to open the boxes the women save money in on a monthly basis.
If you’re in Westminster today, have you seen the #CAWeek installation at @smitf_london? #StandUp4Mums pic.twitter.com/a9YHDwooHM
— Christian Aid (@christian_aid) May 10, 2019
Only with the permission from the community and a guarantor can someone in desperate need for the money borrow with interest from the box.
30-year-old Fatamata Dugba from Bumbeh Pejuh village in the Southern…
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